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Pirate Ethics.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Music: Call it heavy-handed, but the record industry is properly defending property rights. The Internet's a wonderful thing, but it does not grant a license to steal.
We hate to sound unhip, but we're starting to feel sorry for the suits. Music industry executives have been trying to defend one of the basic rules of free enterprise -- the right of artists, authors and others to profit from their own work. But instead of cooperation, they're getting brickbats.
They're being scolded for invading privacy, charging too much for CDs, missing the boat on the Internet and alienating their customers. Last week they stirred up more criticism when they threatened to sue music fans who swap files using online services.
The typical response was to grant that piracy is wrong, but that litigation is not the way to deal with it. As Gigi Sohn, president of an advocacy group Public Knowledge, told The Associated Press: "The recording industry is not going to win if all they do is sue people."
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Fordham Law School professor Sonia Katyal said the Recording Industry Association of America -- Public Enemy No. 1 to the file-swapping culture -- is engaged in "yet another display of unilateral aggression" in what she calls the industry's "war against basic American civil liberties."
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